30th March 2017
Written on 30th March 2017
Cathay Pacific and Lufthansa Group announce co-share agreement
Cathay Pacific signed a co-operation agreement with the Lufthansa Group that will see the airline codeshare on flights operated by Lufthansa, Swiss and Austrian Airlines to a number of destinations in continental Europe. Reciprocally, the Lufthansa Group will codeshare on Cathay Pacific services to four of the airline’s most popular destinations in Southwest Pacific.
Under the agreement, Cathay Pacific will offer 14 new destinations in Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Norway, Italy, Switzerland and Austria with the “CX” code placed on the following services operated by airlines in the Lufthansa Group:
- Lufthansa - Frankfurt to Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Dresden, Hannover, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg, Oslo and Stuttgart.
- Swiss - Zurich to Berlin, Brussels, Florence, Geneva, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Venice.
- Austrian Airlines - Vienna to Frankfurt, Zurich and Düsseldorf.
The Lufthansa Group will place its airlines’ codes on services operated by Cathay Pacific between Hong Kong and Auckland, as well as between Hong Kong and Cairns, Melbourne and Sydney. Under a single booking, passengers from Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna and Zurich will be able to check through and seamlessly transfer to their final destination in Auckland or Australia via Hong Kong International Airport.
The co-operation agreement also extends to both airlines’ frequent flyer programmes. Passengers who are members of Cathay Pacific’s travel and lifestyle rewards programme, Asia Miles and Lufthansa Group’s loyalty programme, Miles and More, will be eligible to earn and redeem miles when travelling on the above codeshare routes. Members of Cathay Pacific’s loyalty programme, Marco Polo Club, can also earn Club Points when travelling on codeshare flights marketed by Cathay Pacific and operated by Lufthansa Group.
Tickets for the new codeshare destinations will be available for sale from 5th April 2017 for travel commencing from 26th April 2017.
Source: Cathay Pacific
